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Index Japan Main Page Japan Expands Its Empire Japan Tests Its Military Might Economic Recovery Is Followed by Deep Recession Succession of Prime Ministers Meet Only Fleeting Popularity Scandals Taint Leadership Liberal Democratic Party Ousted from Power Tsunami Devastates Japan Sixth Prime Minister Named in Five Years Study Finds Nuclear Reactor Damaged by Tsunami, Not Earthquake U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Japanese Organized-Crime Syndicate Japan One Year after the Tsunami, Earthquake, and Nuclear Disaster Japanese Still Divided Over Nuclear Issue Tension Increases with Asian Neighbors Over Islands Noda Wins Party Leadership Vote, but Faces Strong Opposition Shinzo Abe Becomes Prime Minister Again in Late 2012

U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Japanese Organized-Crime Syndicate

In Feb. 2012, the U.S. Treasury Department announced it would impose sanctions on Yakuza, Japan's biggest organized-crime syndicate. The department planned to freeze the group's U.S.-based assets and bar all transactions between its members and Americans. In the U.S., members of Yakuza have been involved in drug trafficking as well as other crimes. Yakuza has around 80,000 members. The group has been in operation for over a hundred years.

Also in Feb. 2012, Japan and the U.S. revisited their 2006 agreement over removing 8,000 Marines from Okinawa. For years, Okinawa residents have opposed the presence of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, a reminder of the United States' occupation of Japan after World War II. Both sides agreed to revise the 2006 condition that the key base must be relocated before moving the Marines. The Marines were supposed to relocate to Guam by 2014. Even without the 8,000 Marines, the island would still have 10,000 Marines as well as the U.S. Air Force's Kadena Air Base.

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